Escape Room News: February 2019

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The monthly escape room newsletter is a new feature on Room Escape Artist. Please share your news with us.

Books & Movies

At Home

  • Throw Throw Burrito is coming soon. It has far exceeded its Kickstarter goal… and you can still back it. Game designer Elan Lee is an avid escape room player. We beta tested it at an escape room enthusiast gathering we attended in Los Angeles last summer.
Amanda Harris posting about Throw Throw Burrito reads, "I playtested a version of this and can confirm that Lisa is straight up savage at dodgeball face-off."

Online

  • The 2019 Cryptex Hunt begins on Friday, March 1 at 9pm Eastern. Play online and through Cluekeeper. It’s free! And yes, there will be prizes! The first person to complete the whole hunt with no hints wins a Nevins Bolivian Rosewood Cryptex. There also will be a drawing among all those who complete the full hunt by March 31 for a standard Cryptex.

Research

Los Angeles, CA

San Francisco, CA

  • Ticket sales are open for Escape, Immerse, Explore: The Palace. Visit Palace Games with us June 1-3, 2019. On this tour you will play 4 incredible escape rooms, including the Golden Lock-In Award-winning The Edison Escape Room. If you’re a traveling player, this is your chance to visit Palace Games!

Orlando, FL

  • Escape Effect just opened a new 2-hour game called A Knight to Escape.

New Orleans, LA

  • Ticket sales are open for Escape, Immerse, Explore: New Orleans 2019. Join us July 12-14, 2019 to visit some of the most amazing escape rooms in the world including multiple Golden Lock-In Award winners such as 13th Gate Escape’s Cutthroat Cavern. Last summer’s tour to New Orleans sold out, but we didn’t want anyone to be left out, so we brought it back again for 2019!

Whitefish, MT

  • Hidden Key Escape Games is opening its third game Saving Camelot. King Arthur and the Knights are away when Mordred attacks. Can you unlock the secrets to release Excalibur for the King?

St. Louis, MO

Santa Fe, NM

New York, NY

Rochester, NY

  • Omega Escape Room is now open in Rochester, NY. You can visit them there or at their original location in Hamburg, NY.

Seattle, WA

Brantford, ON, Canada

Multiple Cities

  • Halo Outpost Discovery is going to have a traveling Halo experience that will include an escape room-style experience called Covenant Escape where players explore a reclaimed section of a Covenant ship. It will travel to Orlando, Philadelphia, Chicago, Houston, and Anaheim this July and August.

Commentary

  • We agree with this list of escape room pet peeves, compiled by Nate Martin, owner of Puzzle Break in Seattle, WA.
  • We expound upon one of them in this longer piece about red herrings.

Videos

  • Niall Horan & Julia Michaels must escape a room on the Late Late Show with James Corden to perform their song.

How To Submit News

Share your own news here!

News items include:

  • Facility openings & closings
  • Game openings & closings
  • Special events
  • Escape room-related products
  • Escape room-related intrigue of all sorts
  • Celebrity visits (if you have a post-game photo that we can publish)
  • Escape room pieces in the general press

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